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by guenthert 5mo ago
> Theoretically, given a sufficient networking configuration/VPN/etc., you could pull your smart card out of the Sun Ray in your university office, go home, and then drop your smart card into a Sun Ray at home and still have ev
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by guenthert 5mo ago
Well, iSCSI is a standard, so chances are better that it's supported in a non-Linux OS, e.g. MS Windows. Years ago I booted a Windows (7, iirc) client that way, but gave up on it (too much hassle and performance limited by the network
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by guenthert 5mo ago
"I didn’t want to get into the hassle of repartitioning everything that the boot loader works with both Linux & Windows." Hmmh? I haven't done so in years, but configuring multi-boot used to be considerably easier than d
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by guenthert 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure it does. I would even think that it tries to optimize such, as a recent check-in comment claims improvements of TCO.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Yeah, pity that the early history seems to have been lost.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
"generating SIGTERM on Control + C" That'll be SIGINT, but I understand, he just tests whether we pay attention.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Does session management really belong in the terminal emulator?
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Er? social security covers more than just healthcare and the issue with on-line data in context of healthcare is patients' history, which i) is sensitive and ii) needs to be shared among health care providers.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
The average lifetime of probes landing on Venus counting in minutes might have something to do with that? "So that’s the bad part. But once you move past it, you start to notice that everything gets easier on Venus." If wishes w
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Indeed. How else would we have been able to know that there is a Mind Prober! Circle 200 on Inquiry card. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-11/page/n173/...
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Yeah, clojure gets away with it thanks to the high performance of the available gc in the JVM. In the Common Lisp world the compiler puts quite some effort into avoiding heap allocation ("consing"); the language was designed with
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by guenthert 6mo ago
You'll want part 2 as well for a total of 107 pages.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
> However, C on LLVM or GCC should probably be considered the “upper bound” when it comes to how well a program can be optimized, and thus the benchmark for any performance measurement. Is it? Isn't it rather the case that C is too
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by guenthert 6mo ago
> https://github.com/sahib/rmlint is the one I had in mind. Ah, right, thanks. I now dimly recall some old project realizing fs-snapshots using hard links, which one could consider some sort of deduplication as wel
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Now I'm no expert in that matter, but the fs deduplicators I've seen were block, not file, based. Those can clearly not use the file length as they are blissfully unaware of files (or any structure for that matter). Those use a
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by guenthert 6mo ago
> Linux still doesn't have anywhere near as nice and cohesive as Group Policy, Active Directory etc. I take your word for it (I know of Kerberos and LDAP and Netscape and Sun trying to make such palatable, but clearly haven't f
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by guenthert 6mo ago
I puzzles me to no end why the typical office clerk should care about the OS at all. I understand that secretaries will be trained on MS Word and will then have a strong preference to use such (or at least something which very closely re
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by guenthert 6mo ago
And those memory arrays cannot detect access from the bus? I'm not saying that it's easy or cheap or worthwhile (I'd rather guess it's not in most cases), but I don't see why it couldn't be done.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Multiple and dissimilar redundancy is nice and all that, but is there a manual override? Apollo could be (and at least in Apollo 11 and 13 it had to), but is this still possible and feasible? I'd guess so, as it's still manned by
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by guenthert 6mo ago
I think he refers to SpaceWire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceWire .
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by guenthert 6mo ago
No, something is funny here. In the previous submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680023 ) the only (competently) criticizing comment (by jeffbee) was downvoted into oblivion/flagged.
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Indeed. And only for certain DRAM refresh strategies. I mean, it's at least conceivable that a memory management system responsible for the refresh notices that a given memory location is requested by the cache and then fills the cac
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Yeah, compare to https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops it is. Years ago, there was a project combining Debian with the kernel from FreeBSD. That never made sense to me and the project seems to have died meanwhile. Mor
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by guenthert 6mo ago
" until you have proven it works, it is broken!" immediately followed by "Time to run some tests!" Prompted a grin. Then however "If we wanted to test this using directed testing we would need to test for all 2^32
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by guenthert 6mo ago
Interesting project and well written. That only made me miss some links to prior art more though. iirc, there was a superoptimizer (I belief the term was coined and motivated in that article) in the early nineties for M68k. https:/&
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by guenthert 7mo ago
Particularly when simultaneously "We are currently in YC Startup School as Geddy at geddy.io and we plan to launch soon."
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by guenthert 7mo ago
"While some may see this as a dick move and I wasn’t exactly proud of it, but I actually waited for Daniel’s wife, Katie, to go into labor before bringing all of this up with his management." Holy cow! Now I've unfortunately
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by guenthert 7mo ago
You don't read much about IBM here, but this is the wrong site to look for them. A big chunk of IBM's business comes from other businesses outside the IT industry. You're more likely to read about IBM in the Wall Street Jou
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by guenthert 7mo ago
Ha, you're absolutely right. The "has become a target" got me there. So glad, Zig wasn't targeted there.
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by guenthert 7mo ago
"As Zig has evolved, it has become a target to avoid calling Win32 APIs from kernel32.dll etc., instead using lower-level ones in ntdll.dll." If we needed an example of why we should avoid using passive voice, this is it.

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